On the right side of your Home tab, you can view a summary section with the most important information from your environment. This information is divided in the following sections:
My Environment
In this section you can view the number of:
- Managed instances - click this option and SQL Safe Backup takes you to the Instances tab.
- Not-contacted instances - click this option and SQL Safe Backup takes you to the Instances tab where you can see the instances in your environment filtered by Error status.
- Not-contacted Backup Agents - click this option and SQL Safe Backup takes you to the SQL Safe Backup Agents tab where you can see those instances whose SQL Safe Backup Agent have an Error status.
- Databases - click this option and SQL Safe Backup takes you to the Databases tab.
- Databases with failed backup - click this option and SQL Safe Backup takes you to the Databases tab filtered by Error status.
- Databases with failed restore - click this option and SQL Safe Backup takes you to the Databases tab filtered by Error status.
- Backup Policies - click this option and SQL Safe Backup takes you to the Policies tab where you can see policies filtered by Backup Policy Type.
- Restore policies - click this option and SQL Safe Backup takes you to the Policies tab where you can see policies filtered by Restore Policy Type.
- Log Shipping policies - click this option and SQL Safe Backup takes you to the Policies tab where you can see policies filtered by Log Shipping Policy Type.
Status Details
In this section you can view a summary of the general status of your environment operations. The number of policies with OK and not OK status, and the number of successful and failed operations.
Disk Space Savings
In this section you can view the amount of disk space saved by SQL Safe Backup. You can view this information for Today, this Month, this Year, the total savings, and the ROI (Return on Investment).
SQL Safe Backup provides a built-in calculator to help you calculate your monetary return on your SQL Safe Backup investment. The calculator attempts to measure the time and monetary savings you gain through using the SQL Safe Backup compression scheme. The Return On Investment (ROI) calculator bases your ROI on the total cost of ownership of your storage devices multiplied by the amount of disk space savings you achieve using SQL Safe Backup. SQL Safe Backup defaults to the commonly used estimate of $200 per GB of storage. You can change this estimate to reflect your particular hardware configuration by accessing the Basic Configurations of the General Preferences window on the Administration tab.